Announcing New Project ''Rainier'' AI Computing Cluster in Cooperation with Anthropic

Amazon (AWS) is constructing a data center empire at unprecedented speed as AI competition shifts from "model performance" to "who acquires more infrastructure faster." Amazon has invested $4B+ in Anthropic (founded 2021) and supplies AI cloud and computing resources. Project Rainier in Indiana — the world's largest AI-dedicated data center cluster consuming 2.2GW annually — serves as the physical base where high-performance AI models including Anthropic's Claude are actually trained, transforming a declining Midwest agricultural region into an AI industry hub. North Carolina: $10B+ investment in new AI/cloud complex with job creation and urban redevelopment. Korea's Ulsan Mipo National Industrial Complex: Amazon partnering with SK Group for a 100MW AI-dedicated data center (planned expansion to 1GW+ by 2029), maximizing power efficiency through LNG co-generation. Why this scale, why now: frontier AI model training and inference requires thousands to tens of thousands of GPUs and terawatt-class power; AI is no longer laboratory technology but physical infrastructure-dependent technology requiring power and cooling; securing priority access to NVIDIA's GB200 chips requires preemptive infrastructure investment. The geopolitical dimension: data center location choices carry strategic implications — Indiana, North Carolina, and Korean investments reflect US-allied industrial policy, creating resilient AI infrastructure outside China's reach while generating jobs and tax revenue in politically important regions.